Monday, October 27, 2014

Being part of the Atlantic Hearts Design team has certainly pushed me outside my box sometimes. This sketch was difficult for me and I had to think a little differently. It was the flowers on the background that somehow threw me. I think it was because I was planning on using the October Stamp of the Month and the Bear image.

That bear image didn't seem to lend itself to this sketch and I had to rethink my plan.

So instead I used the candy as the flowers and the Home for the Holidays house stamp and love the way it turned out!

Snowhaven was the perfect paper to go with the stamp set all it needed was a little bling!

Black Shimmer Trim and Sparkles were great compliments but the Red Enamel Hearts there the true finishing touch! I put it right over the stamped heart and it made the Home for the Holidays pop!

The Home for the Holidays is raised with our 3-D tape bringing it to your attention!

There are only a few days left to get this stamp set before it is gone forever! Also if you purchase $50 of product to get the stamp set for a mere $5 you will also get a roll of ribbon free!

They have run out of the chevron ribbon but are replacing it with other ribbon! Isn't that awesome especially since it was supposed to be while supplies last! Close to My Heart is such a great company!

I cut the vase and flowers out of a scrap of the Brushed paper and the sentiment is the retired Buttercup paper backed with Sky (retired but very similar to Glacier). The base of the card is Garden Green, retired, and the insert is Indian Corn Blue. The base was cut from our new Artfully Sent Cartridge on page 30 Using the Sleeve feature and and shift Envelope 1 and cut at a height of 7 and width of 10.

Basically the entire card except the base was made from scraps! Designing the card started in Cricut Craft Room to get the right sizing of the vase and flowers for the opening on the card front. Then I found the with Sympathy Sentiment on The Artfully Sent Cartridge on page 16 and you use the icon key and y for the With Sympathy.

It took me longer to figure out what I wanted to do than to actually do it! It was so quick and easy and a great way to use scraps!Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is Catherine Nowak - Catscrapbooking.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Saturday, November 15 at 10 am or Wednesday, November 19 at 9:30 am (Additional time added on October 26!)Cost is $20. Everything is cut for you and the leftover paper is yours! Bring scissors, adhesive, glue dots and pop dots!Sign up and Pay by November 1.

If you can't come on the scheduled dates or live out of town you can get a kit mailed to you for $20 plus actual shipping or you can pick it up! Everything would be pre-stamped and you would just have to assemble! This class is available in kit form for the life of the catalog!

To pay you can drop off or send me a check or cash, email me if you need the address. Or you can paypal me using the friends and family tab, the address you need to use is cmncmn@satx.rr.com If you need help please email me or call me (2108872424) and I will talk you through it.

Saturday, October 18, 2014

My kids begged for this outfit for the dog. So of course I had to take pictures!The leftovers of paper from the Scaredy Cat Layout Class were perfect to make this page! I used Thistle card stock for the background! The spider web cut with the Artbooking Cricut cartridge was left from the workshop as were the Complements Boo, stars and sentiment (I want Candy!). I cut the biggest circle with the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge possible in the dot/argyle paper from Scaredy Cat and divided it in half with a zip strip with bats on it. Trimmed my photos to 3 x 5 to make more of the spiderweb visible and matted them in the stripe and the Sunset!I also added a few bling, our Sparkles, because everything is better with bling! or is that bacon? Hmmm, I think both!little red wagon has a challenge right now to do something Halloween, spooky, not much of a fan of spooky but it is definitely Halloween.Scrap & Play Challenge #12 was to create something spooky too!